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A Moment Of Clean Silence ~ Part V

7 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Mind Pilgrimage

How clarity begins inside Most of us spend years assuming the mind is fine. We think thoughts are private and neutral, that the inner voice is “us,” and that performance equals health. Then something simple happens. For a brief moment, the mind falls...

WHEN THE NOISE STOPS ~ 2

5 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Mind Pilgrimage

Most people carry a quiet illusion: the belief that their mind is fine just as it is. Yet behind that mask often hides inner conflict, self-sabotage, and the endless pursuit of goals that never truly belonged to them. I know this because I lived it t...

''Normal Mind'' Illusion ~ Part III

4 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Mind Pilgrimage

Most of us go through life assuming there is nothing wrong with the way the mind works.  We believe thoughts are private, neutral, and that the inner voice is somehow “us.” As long as we perform, produce, and manage to get by, we convince ourselves e...

BREAKING THE SPELL OF ILLUSIONS ~ 1

4 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Mind Pilgrimage

This is not a prescription for enlightenment, nor is it a guide on how to decorate your life with spiritual ornaments. It is about something much simpler, but also much harder: stepping out of your own illusions. For many, psychedelic experiences beg...

In Love

18 Mar 2023 4 minute read 2 comments Diomedes

  Love I wrote that I was placing my hopes and future in her but knew that this implied a loss of former hopes, including my plans to be a solitary, full-time writer (which it did). How fickle our lives were, like leaves in the wind. Then I noted, i...

Wet Chip 1.2

6 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  I was lucid again.  There must have been a flaw in my chip, because this was not supposed to happen.  Even in the few hours each day we appeared to be awake, to eat our food cubes and stretch and wash up, there were prompts and illusions and avata...